A green light for casinos to operate in Japan is unlikely to have a significant impact on the gaming industry in Macau, Davis Fong Ka Chio, who heads the Institute for the Study of Commercial Gaming at the University of Macau (UM), said this week. Fong made the remarks in an interview on Wednesday in his office […]
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Macau pupils’ mathematical literacy ranked third globally with a score of 544 in the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) announced on Tuesday during a press conference at the bureau.
The Court of Final Appeal (TUI) has rejected an appeal by ex-chief prosecutor Ho Chio Meng to disqualify TUI President Sam Ho Fai from his upcoming trial because the latter allowed the city’s graft busters access to the income and assets declarations of Ho and his wife when they were investigating the case.
Addressing a Q& A session in the legislature’s hemicycle on Tuesday, Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario said that the supply of sand from the mainland for the land reclamation project off the north-eastern coast of the peninsula would resume on Friday. Rosario made the remarks on the last of a two-day Q&A session about his portfolio’s policy guide-lines for next […]
Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario said in the legislature on Monday that the increase in the number of registered motor vehicles was expected to be less than one per cent this year. Rosario made the remarks on the first of a two-day Q&A session about his portfolio’s policy guidelines for next year.
Approximately 50 local and foreign groups took part in the “Parade through Macao, Latin City” that spanned several streets of Macau on Sunday.
The graft trial of former chief prosecutor Ho Chio Meng, which had been scheduled to start at the Court of Final Appeal (TUI) on Monday morning, has been postponed by the court sine die because of an appeal by the defence against the participation of the president of the court, Sam Hou Fai, in the trial.
Macau’s gaming revenue posted a 8.8 per cent increase in revenues to US$ 2.73 billion ( 21.8 billion patacas), according to Macau’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau.
Executive Council spokesman Leong Heng Teng said on Thursday that the government was proposing that cash and bearer negotiable instruments of 120,000 patacas (about US$15,000) or more should be declared to customs officers.